A forecast is only useful if someone acts on it before the date passes. Until now that meant someone opening the timeline, spotting what had slipped and chasing it by hand. Delivery Alerts do the spotting for you and put the result where your team already talks.
What lands in the channel
Each message opens with the interval, its dates and a one-line summary — how many Scope Items carry slipped work, how many items are overdue, how many are due now, how many items have no due date, and how many of the slipped ones have no owner.
Below that, one block per Scope Item. Every slipped item is a link to its ClickUp task, with how late it is, its status, who owns it, and one question chosen from what the data shows, for example:
- no estimate — how much is left?
- date moved 3 times — which one is real?
- everything beneath it is closed — can this close?
- status unchanged since 2026-09-12 — what is blocking?
- who owns this?
The message ends with what closed late in the last week, so the people who recovered a date get seen too. If nothing has slipped, it says so in one line instead of going quiet. Silence would look the same as a broken alert.
Why you can trust what it says
An item appears only because of a due date a person set in ClickUp. Forecasts, rolled-up spans and assumed start dates never put anything in a check-in. That is deliberate. A message that accuses someone of being late has to rest on a date they agreed to, not on our projection. The trade-off: work with no due date is counted in the summary but never listed, so if few of your tasks carry due dates the alert will be thin. That is a signal worth acting on in itself.
Setting one up
Open Delivery Alerts (next to Planning in the menu) and choose New alert:
- Destination — a ClickUp Chat channel, a group conversation, or a person (their DM is opened for you).
- Whose work it covers — everything you can see, or only chosen teams or people. The message is always limited to what you can see, so creating an alert never widens anyone's access.
- Which plan — the current interval (recommended; it rolls over on its own) or one specific interval.
- When — daily, weekly on a chosen day, or monthly, at a whole hour, in any time zone. The default is Friday at 16:00 in your time zone.
The drawer shows a live preview rendered the way ClickUp will display it. Send test message posts the draft without recording anything. From the list, each alert can be edited, sent now, paused or deleted, and its last send shows as Sent, Failed or Paused. After five failed sends in a row an alert pauses itself and says so, rather than failing quietly every week.
Limits worth knowing
- Owners are written as @Name, but ClickUp's Chat API cannot create a real mention, so nobody is notified by name. People see the message when they read the channel.
- A message lists up to 40 items, then says how many more there are.
- If no interval is running today, the send is skipped.
- Creating and editing alerts is for Admins and Managers. The feature needs a connected ClickUp workspace.
- Nothing is ever written to your ClickUp tasks.
If you would rather paste the message yourself, the Delivery timeline now has a Copy check-in button that puts the same summary on your clipboard.
Delivery Alerts are included on the Business and Enterprise plans, alongside Planning. See plans.